When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
International unity of the workers is more important than the national. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
